Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Real-Time Digital Video over Multimedia Networks

✍ Scribed by S. Suthaharan; S. Sathananthan; C. Markhauser; L. Guan

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 86 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1077-2014
• DOI: 10.1006/rtim.1999.0192

✦ Synopsis

Multimedia communication aims at transferring various forms of data, audio and video simultaneously in a single network. The applications such as videoconferencing, digital television, multimedia class room teaching, distance learning and video-on-demand make use of multimedia networks and communications technology to provide quality of service (QoS). Digital video and its eective transmission in real-time over a multimedia network are some of the key aspects which have to be resolved in order to provide a good QoS to the consumers of multimedia services.